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Sunday, 23 November 2014

Interstellar: Hollywood leaves AGW in a gravity well.

by Anthony Cox

Hollywood has been a staunch supporter
of AGW. In
fact with Russell Crowe’s Noah any suggestion Hollywood had an
open mind on the subject went down the gurgler as fast as that flightless
turkey could sink.

But now, despite DiCaprio’s grotesquely
hypocritical alignment with the UN [if Noah had been on DiCaprio’s monster
luxury ship they would never have got off], with Interstellar being full of hilarious puns and critiques of AGW, it
seems the AGW mania in Hollywood may not be all black hole rubbish after all.

Interstellar is
set on a doomed Earth with a blight which eats all plants. It’s caused by
nitrogen which in itself is a wickedly witty reversal of the role played by the
trace gas, CO2, in the AGW fantasy. Nitrogen is 80% of the Earth’s atmosphere
and along with oxygen the bulk of the atmosphere. The point being made is that
the idea that humans through their tiny emissions of an already tiny trace gas
could destroy the planet is simply nonsense compared with what nature can do.

Our hero Cooper, who is an astronaut, has a hilarious run in
with 2 education officials who berate him for his daughter’s disputation of the
validity of the Moon landing.

Secondly, a prominent alarmist, Lewandowsky, who is an
educator, has prepared a
notorious paper which asserts those who doubt AGW are also likely to doubt
the Moon landings. That in the future it is the educators who are now the ones
denying the Moon landing is a rather neat reversal of Lewandowsky’s stupid idea
and a pointed indictment of the capitulation of education to the lie of
alarmism today.

Prior to meeting the Lewandowskys of the future Cooper had
managed to capture a drone powered by solar which had been wondering aimlessly
for decades. Again the joke is multi-layered. The drone is an Indian military
one. The point is even if solar can be successful as an energy source it will
not be a ‘pure’ energy source as the renewables are presented by alarmism.

Thirdly, the drone ridicules the efforts of alarmists to get
a solar powered plane in the air on a continuous world flight. These efforts
began in 2003 and are going nowhere fast. Interestingly one of the alarmists
involved in the Quixote Solar
Impulse plan is a psychiatrist. Lewandowsky is a psychologist.

Anyway Cooper serendipitously discovers a plan to rescue
humanity from the blight and is signed up for the rescue of earlier missions.

Before going on his mission Cooper says: just because man was born on Earth doesn’t
mean he has to die here. It’s a great statement which contradicts the
Ludditism of the alarmists who pretend to love new technology such as
renewables but are really anti-technology as much as they are really
anti-human. The alarmists would like humanity to die on Earth.

Finally after some superb set pieces such as the wave planet
and the gravity well, Cooper meets Dr Michael Mann, the best of us all. The name choice can’t be a coincidence. Mann in
the movie is a lunatic who has colluded with kindly Dr Michael Caine’s plan to
distract humanity from their fate by only pretending there was a chance for
humanity on other planets.

After Mann is dispatched, ironically by his own lack of
scientific knowledge, some black hole and fifth dimension gobble-gook gets
Cooper home to meet his elderly daughter and a gravity distorted ending.

The movie is long but views well. It’s no masterpiece though
with obvious
issues, scientific or otherwise. 2001 it isn’t. But, with its sly digs at
the ratbaggery of alarmism, let’s hope it creates a trend of satirising the
stupidity and lies of alarmism in Hollywood.

Great analysis. I also wanted to point out that the Dr Mann in the movie had his data hidden on a robot that was rigged to prevent others from accessing it. One of the scientists dies when he tries to access the data and the robot explodes. One other good dig was the comment about how America was built by risk takers, and the current attitude seems to be that of care takers.

The robots in Interstellar also look like the monoliths from 2001 but with legs. I was waiting for the Frankenstein effect to happen with the robots but the movie avoided that cliché and also embellished the idea that human 'creations' can be better than what nature 'offers'. A most subversive movie.

I forgot the best one. While speaking with the Orwellian School Administrators about the rewriting of history issue, the final straw that gets Murphy suspended is when Cooper threaten to take his daughter to the ball game and buy "soda and candy." It was brilliant. The movie is great had had a lot of inside baseball comments regarding AGW. I've read other reviews of the movie and funniest thing about them is the leftist writers aren't even picking up on all the points that refute global warming and reject their world view. They are helping promote a movie that totally rejects their positions without even knowing it. That is what makes this movie a masterpiece of anti-AGW propaganda. The supporters of AGW are promoting it.

climate sceptic, or climate "interestic": global warming is melting the poles, freshwater, and therefore...could stop deep sea currents...will increase evaporation (ebullioscopy: the less salt has, more evaporates) producing gigantic storm clouds that...phytoplankton shortage may decreasing its vital contribution with oxygene to the Atmosphere... Warming...invasion of tropical diseases...can produce a cooling, a new ice age, like living at the North Pole...and less oxygen in the Atmosphere... It´s not known what will be worse. Go choosing. (And while the Evil Empire: religion, armies, monarchies and politicians...looking elsewhere